Saturday, December 12, 2015

Irish nuns say they were ordered to destroy child vaccine files...

The Catholic nuns who ran the Bessborough mother and baby home, in County Cork, claim they were instructed in 2013 to destroy “all documents” relating to vaccine trials carried out on children in their care.

The nuns claim this instruction was issued by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA), who deny the accusation. The CICA were, at the time, examining the vaccine trials until legal action halted the investigation.

The Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary made this claim, through their lawyers, in a letter to Tusla, Ireland’s the Child and Family Agency. The letter, dated January 2015, was released to the Cork-based newspaper, the Irish Examiner, under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Irish Examiner reports that in August 2014 a letter was sent by assistant principal social worker Pearl Doyle asking a series of questions in relation to material transferred by request to Tusla, in 2011. This letter was sent as the Irish Government was proposing setting up an investigation into mother and baby homes. Full story...